The Issue Of Data Protection Laws

As human beings and citizens of the world, everyone values their privacy. It is a right that is often looked over and taken for granted by most. Since the beginning of time, there have been concerns about individuals’ rights to privacy and their personal information remaining confidential. Our founding fathers had concerns about this which is why, “…this right has developed into

not transferred to countries outside European economic area unless country has adequate protection for the individual

For the home country England there are many policies and procedures within the legislation that relate to safeguarding human rights, data protection and confidentiality. These have been refined into every school policy and procedures such as the human rights act 1998/2004, children act 1989/2004 and the data protection act 1998.

Information Commissioner’s Office (2012) Introduction to The Data Protection Act 1998. [Online] Available from: http://www.ico.org.uk/~/media/documents/library/Corporate/Research_and_reports/ico_presentation_EVOC_20120528.ashx [Accessed: 11th October 2013]

In this document I will be discussing the laws that are related to security and privacy of datas, I will explain how they relate to the security and privacy of data.

As this article concludes you may ask the question: what’s the solution to this seemingly everlasting issue? And the solution’’s a bit dissapointing, dissapointing because in retrospect, there is no solution. As long as there are selfish, money crazed, organizations out there, we’ll never have the true privacy our rights give

Legislation is put in place to ensure the convention happens. Legislation is a set of laws passed by parliament. If these laws are broken, the individual that has done so may be charged with the crime.

Two types of laws are adopted by various countries to protect the sensitive information of individuals on the web. The first kind, comprehensive laws, are laws “that govern the collection, use and dissemination of personal information by both the public and private sectors”6. These general laws do not deal with individual areas like health care or educational systems. Instead, they establish standards for use of private information for all entities. Comprehensive laws are usually adopted for one of three reasons: to remedy past injustices, to promote electronic commerce or to ensure that laws are consistent with Pan-European laws7. In addition, comprehensive laws often require the establishment of an independent commissioner to oversee the enforcement of the law. Unfortunately, problems arise because either a lack of resources hinders

In light of these facts, the Abbott government’s plan to enforce mandatory data retention does not seem viable as its demerits outweigh its merits. Online privacy is a right which allows individuals to withhold their identity and information. With the advent of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, the extent of personal information being shared on the internet has increased to a great extent. This has made privacy an even greater

The right to be forgotten is an rising legal concept. People demand to remove certain information by the internet search engines and thus control their online activities. Judges in Argentina, European Court of Justice and some European data protection regulators have supported this right. After many debates, European Union has a new law on data privacy where "Right to be forgotten" is a key concept. If a person requests to delete his or her data then all his or her old, inaccurate or irrelevant data should be taken out of search

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was designed to harmonize the data privacy laws across Europe. This is mainly done to protect and empower the EU citizens data privacy and to reshape the way organizations approach data privacy. Let’s understand the requirements of Europe’s GDPR privacy and how it affects US companies.

Personal privacy today is a controversial and complex topic, which is influenced by a number of factors. There is an integral role that databases play in this highly debated topic. The fact that many people now carry out their transactions electronically is another important factor. There is also pressure on personal privacy for increased national security around the world to combat terrorism. In addition, personal privacy is even threatened by commercial factors and the Internet.

Act was made law in 1984 but was replaced by a new Act in 1998 to

This paper aims to discuss many legal cases which regard the right to be forgotten. One case was back in 2010: In 2010, a Spanish citizen lodged a complaint against a Spanish newspaper with the national Data Protection Agency and against Google Spain and Google Inc. The citizen complained that an auction notice of his repossessed home on Google’s search results infringed his privacy right because the proceedings concerning him had been fully resolved for several

As regards the question of whether that interference satisfies an objective of general interest, the Court distinguished between the aim of the Directive; which was harmonisation of Member States’s provisions with regards to data retention and the material objective of that Directive as followed from Article 1(1) of the Directive; contributing to the fight against serious crime and thus, ultimately, to public security. The court cited cases showing that the fight against terrorism was an objective of general interest and therefore held that the Directive satisfied an objective of general interest.